Inhumane Quotations

However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers.

If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.

Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.

If they are physically present when inhumane treatment is taking place, sir, they have an obligation to try to stop it,

Silence and secrecy has been the most frustrating component of this case. It just seems inhumane that information about this child can be forbidden on the theory that it's somehow protecting her privacy, when you consider that this child almost died under the state's care.

If the group is seen as a less than human agent, then this will justify inhumane treatment.

He had a well-organized plan and he pursued it in a criminal and certainly an inhumane and tragic manner. And now that everybody is on the ground here, we're finding more and more evidence of this.

States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

It is clear that the government has ended the hunger strike through the use of force and through the most brutal and inhumane types of treatment. It is a disgrace.

We need to have clear guidance, in law, that makes it very clear that inhumane treatment of detainees in American captivity is absolutely unacceptable. This problem is hurting us around the world. It's contrary to our values, and we simply must have this as part of the final bill.

There are no words for an inhumane act that ... cancels centuries of civilization to bring us back to the Dark Ages,

When is it just to punish, or not? There are some cases where a person was so mentally disturbed at the time of the offense that it would be inhumane and morally objectionable to convict and punish them.

We are asking people not to go to school, or work, or shopping and instead to go out and protest against the racist and inhumane measures in this bill.

It's inhumane to suggest that a mother of five children and a woman taking care of two young children to go to jail.

The U.S. government's use and defense of torture and inhumane treatment played the largest role in undermining Washington's ability to promote human rights.

It's almost inhumane to watch TV and see the immobilization of an entire city, ... You watch on TV and never expect it to hit home. It hit home.

They are explicitly saying, for the first time, that the intelligence community should have the ability to treat prisoners inhumanely, ... You can't tell soldiers that inhumane treatment is always morally wrong if they see with their own eyes that C.I.A. personnel are allowed to engage in it.

We are trying to get them thinking of having a technical school there, ... We want to help with that as well. I feel that as a human being if you see other people no matter who they are that need help, it would be inhumane not to offer some assistance. It can only work out for the betterment of Africa and Bermuda as a whole. I love the country and the children. I will definitely back.

Throughout United States history we have encountered and defeated brutal enemies, inhumane and monstrous dictators and met with hideous violence.

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield itself upon honest and lawful terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.

Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.

An abstinence-until-marriage program is not only irresponsible. It's really inhumane .